Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant

In 2013, SANA introduced a new prize, the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Award. Building on SANA’s history of support for those whose work and/or identities places them outside the disciplinary mainstream, this prize provides support for conference travel for the rapidly increasing number of scholars who labor in positions outside the tenure-track system.

Eligible candidates for the award include independent scholars and contingent or community college faculty (details below). To apply, submit your paper abstract or roundtable information for the 2019 SANA/SUNTA conference, any institutional affiliation, and contact information by September 30, 2023 to SANATravelGrants@gmail.com  Please also include a brief summary – no more than 100 words – illustrating that your current employment is in accordance with the award’s guidelines (see below).

About the Eleanor “Happy” Leacock Travel Grant

This grant honors Eleanor “Happy” Leacock’s outstanding career as an independent scholar and her labor as a semi-employed faculty member prior to securing full-time employment at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. In 1972, she was appointed Professor and Chair of Anthropology at City University of New York’s City College, where she was instrumental in rebuilding the department. Leacock simultaneously assumed her position at CUNY’s Graduate Faculty, training and inspiring a new generation of activist anthropologists.

Submissions should relate to the study of North America and, in keeping with Leacock’s contributions to feminist, urban, and activist anthropology, address issues of inequality based on gender, race, class, ethnicity, and/or sexuality. The first recipients of the award were Pem Buck (Elizabethtown Community and Technical College) and Christopher Carrico (Independent Scholar), who attended the spring 2013 SANA meetings in Durham, NC. Independent Scholar, Leni M. Silverstein, received the Leacock Award for travel to the 2013 AAA meetings in Chicago.

Additional guidelines:

• Applicants must work as Independent Scholars, as faculty at community colleges, and/or in a contingent capacity for a college or university. This includes part-time instructors, adjunct instructors, and full-time, non-tenure-track instructors.
• Applicants must work as Independent Scholars, as faculty at community colleges, and/or in a contingent capacity for a college or university. This includes part-time instructors, adjunct instructors, and full-time, non-tenure-track instructors.
• This travel grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of members from the SANA board. SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages everyone eligible to apply for this grant regardless of society’s labels or anthropology’s disciplinary boundaries.
• However, applicants must be SANA members presenting at the current year’s AAA Meeting in Toronto, Ontario November 15-19, 2023. Please find information about how to join here: https://sananet.org/
•  Since the SANA St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant funds currently enrolled graduate students, they are ineligible for this grant, even if they meet the qualifications.
• Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual more than once.
• Preference will be given to those who have applied in the past and have not yet received a Leacock Award.​ Please indicate previous Leacock award submissions in your application.
• This travel grant is awarded on a competitive basis and reviewed by a committee comprised of members from the SANA board. SANA is an intentionally inclusive community of anthropologists and encourages everyone eligible to apply for this grant regardless of society’s labels or anthropology’s disciplinary boundaries.
• However, applicants must be SANA members presenting at the current year’s SANA/SUNTA conference. Please find information about how to join here: http://www.sananet.org/about-sana/
• Since the SANA St. Clair Drake Student Travel Grant funds currently enrolled graduate students, they are ineligible for this grant, even if they meet the qualifications.
• Travel grants will not be awarded to any individual more than once.
• Preference will be given to those who have applied in the past and have not yet received a Leacock Award.​ Please indicate previous Leacock award submissions in your application.